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ONEIROS, Sparlock Submission News
013 years ago
Hey Migraine-ers! (Migraineers? Migs? Eh, we’ll sort that out later…) Some bad news and less-bad news for you today.
Bad news: we’ve had to close the submission process for ONEIROS Dream Journal, as interest has not been sufficient to support the creation of anything close to the kind and size of publication that we’d like to put out there. Maybe we’ll try again with it later, once the MMP audience has grown a bit, but for now, ONEIROS will have to go back to sleep. It was a fitful waking, in any case. Thanks to everyone who did submit their dream-stuff for the journal; sorry we couldn’t make it work for you and please feel under no obligation to MMP! Which is to say, your work is your work, and get it out there to other projects.
The less-bad news: Sparlock the Warrior Wizard is seeing similarly low interest in his Chronicles, which, frankly, surprises the hell out of us, considering his origins and the high creativity of his supporters BUT we are pressing on with this collection! Submissions for The Chronicles of Sparlock will be staying open until the end of September 2012! This will give us enough time to edit, design and prep the book in time for publication by, yes, Halloween! An appropriate release date, all things considered. Visit the submissions page for more details.
In other news, MMP author Justine G is nearly done writing Book Two of her BLACKSTONE weird erotica series. “I just need to get the girls out of that fetish club and into the orgone chamber,” she teases. OK, Justine! Expect GREEN FEVER DREAM to be available for purchase by the end of July, if not sooner (stay tuned to our twitter feed and this site for updates), and doubly-expect a free promotion or two in the days leading up to and surrounding this creepy-fun release!
One last item: we’re pleased to congratulate our resident poet skawt chonzz who will have his wicked poem WARNING FROM THE FUTURE published in the upcoming summer edition of Broken City Mag out of Toronto! The Big Smoke! Check out chonzz’s bizarro poetic steez in the e-chapbook version of R’LYEH SUTRA, only $0.99 for your Kindle, and, as always, DRM-free.
Martian Migraine Press: the Best Kind of Headache
‘Soft From All The Blood’ Free Promotion Wrap-up & Other News…
013 years ago
We ran our two-day free promotion on Amazon for Soft From All The Blood by S R Jones at the beginning of the month. Less than 4 weeks later, we can say with some confidence that they’ve got something there: Soft From All The Blood was downloaded just under 2500 times between May 3 and 4, and the book has seen increased sales in the weeks since. At least 1 sale per day, often more. Our other two current titles, the first book in Justine G‘s BLACKSTONE Erotic series RED MONOLITH FRENZY, and Jones’ tidy flash-fiction collection The Ecdysiasts, have also seen a bit of an up-tick. Most importantly, Soft From All The Blood now features in the ‘Customers Also Bought’ and ‘Also Viewed’ categories, which definitely helps things along!
And here we thought that 100 free downloads would be decent. Yes, we’re embarrassed by our naïveté as well.
We are always pleased with honest reviews, so, if you’re among those 2500 who found a space for Jones’ book on their e-reader, won’t you please pop on by its Amazon page and let us know what you thought?
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In other news, we’ve had to move the release dates up a bit for the next MMP books. It’s a good thing we don’t choose actual, single dates for these things! June is now the month to watch for the second book in the BLACKSTONE Erotica series by Justine G. We’re told it’s just about ready but “added bookings in my lecture series tend to play hell with my free writing time”, says Justine. We’re happy to wait for quality product, of course, and can’t wait to see what she has planned for GREEN FEVER DREAM, especially considering those final scenes in Book One!
The e-chapbook R’LYEH SUTRA will also be slightly delayed. skawt chonzz‘s bizarre poetics and altered-state prose awaits the resolution of some technical glitches vis a vis a proposed insertion of a randomly sampled and hyperlinked occult document. Folks, this was much easier when MMP put out the actual, physical version of this chapbook last year, but we are working hard to make the weird thrill at the core of the digital R’LYEH SUTRA as mind-bending and unsettling as its paper ancestor!
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We haven’t said much here regarding Haley Warren‘s THRESHOLD616 YA series, as when it finally sees release (Halloween 2012) we want to blow the roof off this thing. And by this thing, we (probably) mean “the Internet”. Alright, kidding. Very slightly kidding. But we would like to announce that we’re speaking with some very talented artists about the cover to the first book, Children of Hazard, and we’re getting pretty excited about that! More details as they come in…
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Finally, some news about submissions…
Martian Migraine Press is now open to submissions for our new journal, ONEIROS. This journal, which will be available in multiple e-formats (and possibly a limited press run), is focused on mapping the territory of human dreams! We’ll be placing ONEIROS in our non-fiction category, naturally. For more details on what we are looking for from contributors, please visit our Submissions page.
Martian Migraine Press: the Best Kind of Headache
New (& Strange!) Erotica Now Available for your Kindle
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Ladies, gentlemen, entities of no fixed gender, indeed any and all protean types of varied sexual preference… please to be making your way to Amazon for the new book of monstrous erotica now available for your Kindle: RED MONOLITH FRENZY! Book One of the BLACKSTONE Erotica Series by Justine G from Martian Migraine Press.
This perverted little tale is only $2.99 and it’s DRM-free. (We’ve learned our lessons here at MMP) Please enjoy and when you’re done, make sure to give our girl a bit of a review; she’d like that and we would certainly appreciate it as well! Thanks!
